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Performers/Composers with ridiculous last names...
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 3:58 pm
by dtemp
Hello TubeNet Braintrust-
I'm working on something at work, and I want to include a short with musicians/composers with really hard-to-pronounce foreign last names.
I'm not looking to delve into the SUPER obscure here, but just post any ideas you have.
Thanks!
names
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:06 pm
by gregsundt
Not to be too obvious...
Englebert Humperdinck. Maybe it's not so obscure any more.
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:11 pm
by J.c. Sherman
Ole Schmidt. That's what you say when you see the double high F in his Tuba Concerto!
J.c.S.
yo
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:09 pm
by Biggs
My favorites:
Dietrich Buxtehude
Johann Fux
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:10 pm
by Stefan Kac
Only slightly less obvious...
I have rarely heard "Penderecki" pronounced correctly.
Also...
http://www.music.lsu.edu/faculty/constantinides.html
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:23 pm
by Toobist
While I don't know if it's along the same lines...
I have to snicker whenever we pull out the Sheidt (sp?) from the quintet folders.
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:37 pm
by dtemp
I'm looking for more along the lines of real long, hard-to-pronounce ones. I would give you an example, but I'm blanking (hence the thread).
Keep 'em coming though...
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:38 pm
by CrappyEuph
Sofia Gubaidulina
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:54 pm
by ZNC Dandy
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:04 pm
by Chuck Jackson
Harrison Birtwistle
Walter Aschaffenburg
Jacob Avshalomov
Grazyna Bacewicz
Arno Babadjanyan
Yannis Xenakis
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
Sofi Asgatovna Gubaydulina
Vladimir Ussachevsky
To name a few
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:23 pm
by windshieldbug
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:39 pm
by eupher61
serge koussevitsky is fun too..and misspelled here.
dmitri shosTAkovich
Vaclav Nehlybel
Merle Hogg (pronounced with a Long O, from what I've been told)
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:40 pm
by GC
Zdenko G. Fibich
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:43 pm
by Chadtuba
Darious Milhaud
Not a long name but definitely a confusing one if you don't speak French.
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:48 pm
by dtemp
Chuck Jackson wrote:Harrison Birtwistle
Walter Aschaffenburg
Jacob Avshalomov
Grazyna Bacewicz
Arno Babadjanyan
Yannis Xenakis
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
Sofi Asgatovna Gubaydulina
Vladimir Ussachevsky
To name a few
POIFICT!
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:46 am
by tubeast
Not a composer, but a title: Wachut Auf
It´ll make more sense if you take a closer look at the text:
"WachEt auf! ruft uns die Stimme der Wächter auf der hohen Zinne" Wake Up! shouts the voice of guards on the tall pinnacle/battlement (or whatever it´s called in English, the structure on top of castles, watch towers, and city walls)
Other than that: most names of Slavic / middle or east Asian origin will read strange to our eyes. As in Arutjunian, Khatchaturian (to give Armenian examples)
My favorite, as we share the last name:
Schnuckenack Reinhardt (Gipsy jazz musician loosely related to Django Reinhardt)
There are a lot of famous names in this genre that will sound strange to German ears. Great music and musicians, though.
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:04 am
by Mark
Zoltán Kodály
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:22 am
by goldtuba
Bix Beiderbecke
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:09 pm
by MaryAnn
Not a composer, but a real guy I've met:
Bentley Erdwurm
MA
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:54 pm
by 9811matt
From the German Band genre...
Bruno Balz
